Senior Strategic Environmental Assessment Consultant

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Join our team as 
Senior Strategic Environmental Consultant

Please apply to this position if you are looking for change, more responsibility and would like to be part of a small team that is passionate about landscapes, ecology and place making. Above all, we would welcome candidates willing to innovate the SEA process.

Salary: Negotiable. The salary for this post is to be agreed based on qualifications and experience: £30,000 - £35,000

Position: Full time or part time options

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and/or home working

Benefits: Various, including stakeholder pension, professional institution subscription paid, CPD allowance, generous annual leave, team events, Birthday policy

Job description: Senior Strategic Environmental Assessment Consultant


Skills and qualifications required
• Qualifications: Masters degree, or extensive transferable skills, in a related discipline.  
• Relevant professional membership of organisations such as CIEEM, the Landscape Institute, IEMA or the RTPI. 
• Considerable experience of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal is required, and experience in the plan-making sector is desirable. You must demonstrate a strong technical ability in this field and the ability to deliver appropriate SA/SEA documentation.   
• Proven professional consultancy experience and project management. 
• Experience of project management. 
• Experience of report writing and preparing of quotes and tenders. 
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills showing experience of managing clients and undertaking stake holder consultation. 


Responsibilities
• Consultancy expertise: Provide consultancy advice and support on the strategic level environmental assessment of plans and programs through delivery of Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment.  
• Maintain a strong awareness of how the latest changes to legislation and planning policy has an impact on projects. Demonstrate an in depth practical working knowledge of the UK town and country planning system, plan-making process and relevant sustainability issues.
• Report writing: Write clearly written and easy to follow reports. Interpret data and format it into high quality, comprehensive reports, written in a manner that is robust yet can still be understood by non-technical people.  
• Project management: Sound project management skills. Ability to keep to time and budget. Engage in regular communication with our diverse range of clients and other stakeholders. Experience of preparing quotations and tenders.
• Team work: Assist with team management and supporting junior members of the consultant team. 
 Have the ability to work as part of a team and the capacity to work independently. Ideally, be able to show experience of working in a consultancy environment and working as part of a small team. Line management skills would also be beneficial.



How to apply:
If you meet the requirements for this post and are interested in applying, please email your CV and a covering letter in support of your application to: careers@lepusconsulting.com 

There is no closing date at the moment, but don’t hesitate to apply. The post will be filled once the right candidate has arrived.

Please do not call to discuss the post. We will call any candidates that appear to meet the requirements of the post.

Strictly no agencies. 
14th January 2021
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